Fundamentals of Developing Legal Mechanisms for the Protection of Society in the Context of Scientific and Technological Progress

Abstract

The development of scientific and technological progress is fraught with danger for a person as a biosocial being. Therefore, the need to protect the person and society is continuously growing by developing protection mechanisms at various levels: from social to strict and imperative. In this regard, the research aims to develop the basics of legal mechanisms to protect society. The integration of responsibility for the achievements of scientific and technological progress is based on the assessment of the inevitable risks associated with them. We substantiate the social and legal grounds for the inclusion and centralization of this aspect in creating criminal law mechanisms to increase their preventive potential in the abuse of science. We use the methods of comparative-legal, structural, and social analysis and generalization. As a result, we justified the need to recognize the supreme value of the person, their rights, and freedoms as the basis for creating mechanisms for protecting the person and society in terms of rapidly developing scientific and technological progress. Such a prioritization against the background of innovative discoveries contributes to the adequate creation of new criminal law objects of protection and their development in the person’s interests. The combination of scientific-social and criminal law aspects in forming the considered protective mechanisms of society allows for increasing their preventive potential and filling in the gaps that arise due to the delay in legislation, which is the novelty of the study.